Wayne Gretzky has recorded the most career points by a center, with 2,857 points.

	NAME	P	GP	G	A	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,798	1,731	549	1,249	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
3	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
4	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,704	1,366	634	1,070	+199	876	188	404	4	7	101	25	4,328	14.6	15,811	29,916	52.9	1,195	669	778	1,122	20:39
5	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,641	1,378	625	1,016	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
6	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,601	839	640	961	+87	769	221	443	46	19	67	11	3,306	19.4	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
7	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
8	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,588	1,375	646	942	+151	810	187	358	47	28	88	9	4,153	15.6	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
9	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,539	1,714	430	1,109	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,067	14.0	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
10	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,529	1,456	536	993	+145	1,454	146	353	58	66	79	8	3,350	16.0	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
11	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,425	1,279	524	901	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
12	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,420	1,337	341	1,079	+33	415	103	410	12	23	56	5	2,392	14.3	4,526	7,892	57.3	45	149	209	371	20:00
13	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,376	1,403	443	933	+126	1,231	149	324	18	26	56	3	2,743	16.2	1,337	2,579	51.8	89	86	74	116	18:27
14	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,348	1,106	501	847	-113	714	176	368	12	10	47	4	3,574	14.0
15	Denis Savard D. Savard	1,338	1,196	473	865	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1
16	Pierre Turgeon P. Turgeon	1,327	1,294	515	812	+139	452	190	297	10	10	86	11	3,154	16.3	2,460	4,909	50.1	60	92	212	367	15:46
17	Gilbert Perreault G. Perreault	1,326	1,191	512	814	+41	500	134	298	8	4	81	0	3,077	16.6
18	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	1,284	1,463	440	844	+113	350	124	324	14	14	78	9	3,342	13.2	14,582	27,314	53.4	1,276	1,042	835	948	20:47
19	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1,280	1,149	484	796	+31	1,134	168	308	4	1	80	13	3,604	13.4	5,735	12,754	45.0	680	490	994	1,122	19:34
20	Jean Ratelle J. Ratelle	1,267	1,280	491	776	+236	276	137	213	4	3	68		2,916	16.8
21	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,261	1,193	466	795	+264	1,004	128	273	12	6	68		3,834	12.2
22	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	1,239	977	450	789	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
23	Norm Ullman N. Ullman	1,229	1,410	490	739	+7	710	116	172	8	13	59		3,426	12.3
24	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	1,227	1,480	437	790	+24	377	106	255	13	15	72		3,129	10.1
25	Jean Beliveau J. Beliveau	1,219	1,125	507	712	+117	1,033	173	269	0	2	83		2,627	11.4